000 04591nam a22005415i 4500
001 978-94-007-4455-4
003 DE-He213
005 20140220083346.0
007 cr nn 008mamaa
008 120521s2012 ne | s |||| 0|eng d
020 _a9789400744554
_9978-94-007-4455-4
024 7 _a10.1007/978-94-007-4455-4
_2doi
050 4 _aQC176.8.S8
050 4 _aQC611.6.S9
050 4 _aQC176.84.S93
072 7 _aPHFC
_2bicssc
072 7 _aSCI077000
_2bisacsh
082 0 4 _a530.417
_223
100 1 _aBlossey, Ralf.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aThin Liquid Films
_h[electronic resource] :
_bDewetting and Polymer Flow /
_cby Ralf Blossey.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2012.
300 _aXVIII, 151 p. 64 illus., 11 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
_bPDF
_2rda
490 1 _aTheoretical and Mathematical Physics,
_x1864-5879
505 0 _aApplications of Thin Films -- Statistical Mechanics of Thin Films -- Capillarity and Surface Tension -- Forces acting on Interfaces -- Wetting and Dewetting -- The Solid-Liquid Boundary -- Polymers as Thin Films: Glass Transition -- Hydrodynamics of Thin Films -- Lubrication Approximation for Viscous Thin Films -- Film Rupture -- Rims -- Fluctuations in Thin Films -- Visco-elastic Thin Films -- Mathematics of Thin-Film Equations -- Existence and Regularity of Solutions to Thin Film Equations -- Numerics for Thin-Film Equations.
520 _aThis book is a treatise on the thermodynamic and dynamic properties of thin liquid films at solid surfaces and, in particular, their rupture instabilities. For the quantitative study of these phenomena, polymer thin films haven proven to be an invaluable experimental model system.   What is it that makes thin film instabilities special and interesting, warranting a whole book? There are several answers to this. Firstly, thin polymeric films have an important range of applications, and with the increase in the number of technologies available to produce and to study them, this range is likely to expand. An understanding of their instabilities is therefore of practical relevance for the design of such films.   Secondly, thin liquid films are an interdisciplinary research topic. Interdisciplinary research is surely not an end to itself, but in this case it leads to a fairly heterogeneous community of theoretical and experimental physicists, engineers, physical chemists, mathematicians and others working on the topic. It justifies attempting to write a text which aims at a coherent, theoretical presentation of the field which researchers across their specialised communities might be interested in.   And finally, thin liquid films are an interesting laboratory for a theorist to confront a well-established theory, hydrodynamics, with its limits. Liquids at surfaces take notice of the surface they are placed upon, and this is reflected in their dynamics. And the polymers, when confined to thin films, can imprint molecular properties on the film dynamics.   The material in the book is arranged in two Parts. Part I covers the basics of wetting and dewetting phenomena, and is of interest to researchers working in the field also outside of polymeric systems. It can be read as a brief introduction into the theory of wetting phase transitions. Part II delves exclusively into polymeric thin films, their mathematical description, and the confrontation with experiment.   The present book  attempts to bridge between the ‘light’ and the ‘rigorous’, always with the ambition to enhance insight and understanding - and to not let go the elegance of the theory.
650 0 _aPhysics.
650 0 _aChemistry, Physical organic.
650 0 _aPolymers.
650 0 _aSurfaces (Physics).
650 1 4 _aPhysics.
650 2 4 _aSurface and Interface Science, Thin Films.
650 2 4 _aPhysical Chemistry.
650 2 4 _aSurfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.
650 2 4 _aSoft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.
650 2 4 _aPolymer Sciences.
650 2 4 _aTheoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9789400744547
830 0 _aTheoretical and Mathematical Physics,
_x1864-5879
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4455-4
912 _aZDB-2-PHA
999 _c104774
_d104774